My Audio Technica ATH-M50's, which are excellent excellent headphones, sound completely different on my iPod than on my PC. With my iPod, the music sounds great, full, deep, and bassy. The same song with my PC sounds shallow, watery, and weak. I've tested various media players including WMP, MPC-HC, and iTunes, but the result is the same. It's not an EQ issue as despite turning off bass booster on my iPod, no matter what I do to my PC program's equalizer the sound isn't even a fraction as good.
Seems it's not the headphones, and not the software, so what other possibilities does that leave? Maybe it's an audio driver problem with my PC? My OS is Windows 7 on a Dell Studio XPS 7100. This isn't a new problem, I only noticed recently because I loved my ATH-M50's so much I swapped out my regular ear buds that I use on my iPod for them. It's really important to me and I really really appreciate any help.
This is exactly what my Device Manager shows:
Sound, video, and game controllers
- NVIDIA High Definition Audio
- NVIDIA High Definition Audio
- NVIDIA High Definition Audio
- NVIDIA High Definition Audio
- NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)
- Realtek High Definition Audio
Related earlier thread from someone else with the same problem:
http/www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1880288/beats-sound.html#.
Seems it's not the headphones, and not the software, so what other possibilities does that leave? Maybe it's an audio driver problem with my PC? My OS is Windows 7 on a Dell Studio XPS 7100. This isn't a new problem, I only noticed recently because I loved my ATH-M50's so much I swapped out my regular ear buds that I use on my iPod for them. It's really important to me and I really really appreciate any help.
This is exactly what my Device Manager shows:
Sound, video, and game controllers
- NVIDIA High Definition Audio
- NVIDIA High Definition Audio
- NVIDIA High Definition Audio
- NVIDIA High Definition Audio
- NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)
- Realtek High Definition Audio
Related earlier thread from someone else with the same problem:
http/www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1880288/beats-sound.html#.